Quotes with ill-fortune

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• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

  Edmund Burke
  English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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• Most of our censure of others is only oblique praise of self, uttered to show the wisdom and superiority of the speaker. It has all the invidiousness of self-praise, and all the ill-desert of falsehood.

  Tryon Edwards
  American theologian (1809 - 1894)
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• The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.

  George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• The happiness or unhappiness of men depends as much on their humors as on fortune.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

  Molière
  French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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• There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
  

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• There is a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound by shallows and in misery.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• Too poor for a bribe, and too proud to importune, he had not the method of making a fortune.

  Thomas Gray
  British poet (1716 - 1771)
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• Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return.

  George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• 'Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

  Miguel de Cervantes
  Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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• A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.

  Samuel Johnson
  English writer (1709 - 1784)
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• A happy marriage is still the greatest treasure within the gift of fortune.

  Eden Phillpotts
  English author, poet and dramatist (1862 - 1960)
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• A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

  Denis Waitley
  American motivational speaker, writer and consultant (1933 - )
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• A man generally has the good or ill qualities he attributes to mankind.

  William Shenstone
  English poet (1714 - 1763)
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• A man who gives his children habits of industry provides for them better than by giving them a fortune.

  Richard Whately
  British writer (1787 - 1863)
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• A man's own good breeding is the best security against other people's ill manners.

  Lord Chesterfield
  English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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• A pioneer is generally a man who has outlived his credit or fortune in the cultivated parts.

  Benjamin Rush
  American politician (1745 - 1813)
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• A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.

  Jean de la Bruyère
  French writer (1645 - 1696)
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• A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded.

  Abraham Lincoln
  American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• invidiousness
• unhistorical
• indifference
• commendation
• infrequency
• disregarded

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